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We're going to talk about the burrito economy today. We're going to talk about Iran. We're going to get into all the latest stuff over the weekend. that you missed. and you don't want to miss a bit of it.

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Now Started with this. But we're not going to say this. I just think the story is, because there's been a lot of discussion about it. It's kind of like I said, it's hard for a civilian to like unpack and criticize that story because, good heavens, I get cabin fever if I'm in my house for like longer than three days and I don't leave. I get a little nutty.

So I get it. But I also kind of go back to, you know, I just sort of follow. This is like one of those, it's like, this is one of those battles where I'm like, yeah, that's a. That's a military argument over there. But where I think civilians can get in and be helpful is to tell the press to shut up.

Because I don't trust half of what the press. I mean, have you seen the stuff that they like, just what they promote about? Name something, any kind of foreign policy, uh any kind of any kind of geopolitical issue, any kind of economic issue, any kind of issue concerning health care, any kind of issue concerning trans. I mean, it's not like I we d we really trust these people to give us. To be honest with what they're reporting, I don't trust that either.

Speaking of Iran, by the way, so apparently, did you hear? Hang on, let me pull this up. The um I'm president. threaten to blow to high hell Oman if they keep uh getting involved. And his business, Cain.

Mm-hmm. Is done with Oman's frogginess, for the lack of a better way to put it. I think that's his favorite. That's POTUS's favorite thing to say. Is that He's just going to, I don't know how to say it.

He's going to blow the blank out of somebody. And that's what's been happening here.

So Trump is displeased with Oman. He threatens them as this agreement expires. And he says if they get in the way. They're going to get bombed. if it gets in the way.

The Fragile ceasefire.

Now remember, I gotta remind everybody of this. Just because it's You know. The negotiation that we're in, that all of this stuff that expires today is a negotiation. By the way, if you remember, that's essentially just the negotiation to get to the negotiation.

So we're never going to get anywhere, and we aren't anywhere. But apparently, at all, anything that they agreed to here before expires today. Super fun.

So all apparently, some of the ship traffic started to slow down because they were I mean, everybody's just kind of on pins and needles waiting to see what happens next. And I hope that everyone remembers that this is all due to Iran's unwillingness to come to the negotiating table. Pota said he's going to bomb Oman if they get in the way. 60-day ceasefire, no official negotiation or deal in sight. You know what Iran is doing?

They're just simply waiting and rearming and rebuilding.

So every time. Every time there's a pause, they're working to rebuild.

So everything that took us billions of dollars to deal with, they can rebuild and then we'll have to and because we uh the pre I mean, I don't want to release uh undue sanctions on Iran. I don't want to aid them in being able to build infrastructure, military infrastructure that we spent billions of dollars taking out. And what are we going to just keep doing the same cycle for who knows how long? This is what makes people upset when you get the post-liberal Getting in here and acting like they know anything about military strategy or geopolitical issues, you have a bunch of company conservative, too big to fail, Bush types. That's who this is.

No offense. I mean, it almost sounds insulting to Bush at this point because I think that they're way worse than anything that moderate Republicans were in the 90s and oughts, and we're going to dive into that as well. But if you think that it has no being right now in what's happening with our foreign policy, you would be mistaken. These are the ones who are insisting on pushing Trump towards mission creep, right? These people are the ones who are insisting on slowing everything down and allowing Iran time to rebuild.

So that's all this is. This is not even a containment trap anymore. This is just pure avoidance. And that's the sad part of it.

So Trump told the media, he goes, Yeah, they're good poker players, but they're dying. I have no time schedule. I'm not in a hurry. And if Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the blank out of them.

So what is that?

So True story. It is that this is what is going to cost people. Enthusiasm going towards November is this cycle and this continuous cycle. Every day I sit down and it's this.

Something happens, then we stop. When Iran's knock back on their heels, then we stop. No, I think that POTUS is still applying economic pressure. And apparently, Scott Bessant is going is. What is he?

He's putting together some kind of economic kill pill for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I trust that, but also at the same time, I don't want to allow them to completely restructure. Because that's just wasted money and effort on our part. That doesn't do anybody any good, but we'll see how this goes. They said only three ships passed Sunday. The five-day average for transits is now about 12.

And before everything kicked off in February, you had 130 vessels that would cross the day. With the Strait of Ormuz.

So, hmm. Uh we're gonna come back to this because we also have a bunch of other stuff to get into. Uh the uh goodness, hmm. Where to start? Because Democrats lurching forward full on.

Is it with socialism? Let me go to this. Did you guys hear this story? I found this funny. New York Magazine, New York Magazine got, and we'll talk about this, got in a lot of trouble towards the end of last week for writing what I can only describe as like some kind of Mein Kampf wannabe sort of story.

It was ridiculous. And now it came out that they had to fire their Mandani-loving writer, Ross Barkin, because apparently he plagiarizes everything.

So it's like Benny Johnson. No, so he plagiarizes every. Oh, yeah, you would. Don't Google that. Or maybe Google that.

The uh guy who's one of Zoron's biggest cheerleaders. He, uh has apparently It's been proven that he's ripped off other writers' works 67 times. 67 so it's not an accident and it's not one of these things where he is Writing a piece and he's quoting someone and he forgets to attribute the quote. He apparently literally is just like lifting entire pieces, like entire graphs from other people's work and then just. passing it off as his own.

How nice. New York Magazine, after their cover story, and well, their anti-Israel, it wasn't even an anti-Israel thing, it was actually incredibly shocking. It was like Hassan Pikah wrote it. They reviewed his work because the what the Washington Post Actually, it was a reporter with the Washington Post who brought it up and was like, You realize that this guy basically copied my whole thing? He noted some of the what they called striking similarities.

I would say it's not, it's more than just a striking similarity. I mean, it is literally. almost verbatim. I mean, the first the lead, and then into the first graph. I mean, they start ex I mean it's just It's maybe a partial rewrite, but then in other places, I mean, it's plagiarism.

And New York Magazine had to go in and start. Redoing this guy's like rewriting this guy's stories and then attributing, giving credit to the people that he lifted from because there was apparently so much.

So it wasn't until the Washington Post. Said hey. This guy's stealing our stuff. What's Are you surprised that it's New York Magazine? I'm not.

I hate New York Magazine. New York Magazine hates me. There's no love lost here. 67 columns.

Now, what they said is, well, he didn't include proper attribution or no, he plagiarized it. There's pretty harsh examples that they have here. In fact, So like one one graph Uh for instance.

So it starts off This is the Washington Post. For instance, quote: The conservative media company Daily Wire was once the star of the mega digital universe, dominating social media feeds and podcast apps with a blint of anti-woke commentary, viral Facebook posts, and culture war stunts, etc. etc. And It gets into. Oh, there was a time not very long ago when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media.

His company, Dailywire, dominated. I mean, it's the same stuff. It's the exact same thing, it's the same lead. And other other things are even more verbatim. These people, this is like.

Not the It's like every year we have a story like this of like somebody on the left or a leftist type person. This is so much more. I mean, you have AI for crying out loud. Why the hell are you stealing other people's work? If you can't think of anything to write, then isn't that what they all do?

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That, how serious is this move? Because I don't like feeling that we don't have any major assets over in the Pacific theater.

So, for this and some other related issues, we're going to talk to our very good friend, Mr. Stephen Yates, who is an expert on all of these. And he's got a spanking brand new background, too, by the way.

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Okay, I see headlines like this. I'm trying not to be chicken little, but I don't like it. I feel, I mean, do we have to have assets in this, you know, in the Pacific, but I'm a little worried that so much of our focus is now on the Middle East, like hyper-focused, and we continue to feed it by these cycle of action and pause while Iran is allowed to rebuild and rearm itself.

So, what is your do you have concerns about this headline? Is it overblown? And if you do have concerns, what are they? Yeah, I tend not to have concerns about the headline, mostly because these things are floating platforms that move around the world as needed. They have regular rotations.

And one of the reasons why this one is rotating in is because the other one went into this mission under the auspices of what might have been a shorter tour of duty that is now extended to one of the longer times for the service members to be on the platform not getting home. And that ended up being a headline of itself. You have a community of 5,000 of America's finest. You run those odds. You're going to get one or two out of that barrel of apples that are not happy or don't adjust well.

That became a problem too. But the movement of an aircraft carrier from one theater to another, leaving us without one in the Indo-Pacific temporarily, will be temporary. And I think it's important for people to remember: we have a lot of assets in the Pacific. And what is relevant to a China. Scenario, first and foremost, maybe in a North Korea scenario, are forward-based capabilities, things that we have at Guam and some other territories that people forget are American and well fortified.

And the Pacific Command has a huge amount of assets, many of which should make China have massive headaches if they want to kick us around a bit. And so the carrier battle group platform is just one of the noteworthy parts. Is it better to have one or two kicking around and running through the Taiwan Strait just to brush back the aggressive commies? That's my preference, but I don't get too hot and bothered by one moving to the Middle East for the time being, and another inevitably will rotate back over the Pacific region. Yeah, we're talking with our good friend Stephen Ye too.

We're dealing with this story about these assets over in the Pacific.

Now, Looking at Iran, the headline that came out this morning. Trump. I can't really say his direct quote. You know what he said, though. He's upset over Oman.

um interfering, I think, in the negotiations and said that they would bomb the redacted out of them. That's that we'll put it like that, bomb the redacted out of them. What is Oman doing? I mean, I didn't realize that they were being such pests.

Well, Dana, this is how we know you are not a web-based show because you could fill in the blank if you didn't have a certain regulatory agency tracking your words. True, yes. But I moved to edit the name Oman and put a comment after O and just call it O Man because they've been basically involved in this negotiation with Iran where they are, I think, involved in a non-starter negotiation where they're talking about who's going to charge what fees for different vessels to come and go, which lanes they'll use. And obviously, this is not going to hit a resting place where local tribes are able to extract tolls. This is going to have to be freedom of navigation if we're going to have stood for anything in the course of this months-long blockade of Iran.

And so, Oman has been one of these negotiation facilitators. I think that to a degree, the administration might feel like, with some justification, that the moderators or conveners of the conference. Conversation, whether it's Pakistan, Oman, or others, began pulling things in their own direction, not necessarily the direction we wanted to go. And the president is doing what he has always wanted to do, which is when you step outside of his zone of comfort, he will zap you on Truth Social and upset the chessboard and see whether you can put the pieces back and resume the conversation. There's so many of these, if it was Pakistan and then now Oman, that they're really wanting to overstep.

I guess their authority and the bounds of the relationship as defined currently by whatever diplomacy is guiding it, and just getting involved in our business and trying to mess things up. I look at what Pakistan was doing with Lebanon and trying to drag Lebanon in on this negotiation with Iran, and that created a whole other problem and it added another increased, actually, increased military response.

So, what is it? Everybody thinks that they can get involved in this and help. Clearly, there's not going to be any help. Iran cannot be helped. This is a situation that it's not going to improve unless the regime is gone, correct?

So I would dice it this way. The Revolutionary Guard is an unreformable institution, and it is the primary source of terror for the Iranian people. And that's who ultimately we need to exercise dominant influence, that the traditional culture of Iran overtakes the theocratic regime that has held it hostage for the last half century. And we had a strategy in place for the first third or so of this campaign that was significantly degrading the capabilities and the actual numbers of leaders of the Revolutionary Guard. And when we paused to give peace a chance and got back into this Lucy in the football routine on negotiations, or are we bombing them back to the Stone Age?

But we never quite made the Stone Age, the Revolutionary Guard is still there and they can engage in terroristic-like activities. And unless we have a way of allowing our allies to completely go for it, or we're going to have a very Long, patient process of economic starvation, this is going to be a protracted problem where the Revolutionary Guard will continue to harass, will continue to affect markets, and will continue to have a gab fest that the world will happily cover that makes you look bad. And so, I think that there's some editing needs to happen in what we've been doing at this point. My sense is the economic pressure campaign is pretty good, but that's going to take a long time. And the regime, as the Revolutionary Guard goes, doesn't care about the suffering or neediness of its people.

To your point on that, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson announced new measures, not just against Tehran, but apparently now they're floating sanctions on China, new sanctions on China. This, according from a couple of different outlets, the U.S., the U.N., take that for what it is, and the EU also take it for what it is, they've already imposed sanctions, trade restrictions, but now apparently there's something new that could befall China. I mean, how much of an impact is that going to have? I think it's marginal, but it's not the right thing to do. I think the Secretary of Besant has been one of the best Treasury secretaries I have ever known in terms of the role in the national security space.

People forget that the Secretary of Treasury is an actual statutory member of the National Security Council. And I'm not talking about their larded-up staff of academics that advise presidents. The actual National Security Council defined by statute as cabinet leaders. That core group is Treasury. And that economic warfare component done right really manages the risk that the hard power parts of the cabinet need to take up.

And so I think this is net positive, but it's completely marginal in terms of the economic magnitude. Denying Iran access to Karg Island oil. Is like a nuclear economic weapon. And that has been achieved, best I can tell. They are not benefiting from oil coming and going from Carg Island.

That has to have huge consequences, but it takes time for that.

So I see this as net positive. It's another thing that puts the president's conversation with Xi Jinping into better context. If he will take this angle of conversation up, this is another example where China has not been as helpful as they should have been. Of course, I don't expect them to be helpful. I think they're our adversary.

Now, speaking of China, I want to go back and ask your thoughts on Trump and South Korea right now. Because he had, let me pull this up really quickly. For those who don't know or maybe didn't see it, he was the way that it's being described is he's ordering the military to substantially reduce joint exercises with South Korea and the overture. That he is described as giving to Kim Jong-un in North Korea is now straining. The relationship with South Korea.

And the word is that he's upset because South Korea would not commit to assisting the United States with Iran, even though South Korea also falls under our dome of protection.

So, do you think how is POTUS's moves on this? Is South Korea right to do what they're doing, or should they have maybe listened to the President of the United States of the country on whom they depend on for defense?

Well, since I sit happily on the outside, I'm happy to offer some advice about how all sides of this probably could have handled this a little bit better. And the South Korean government is a left-leaning government. It is one that when the left is in charge in South Korea, it's been a real pain in our backside in terms of foreign policy. When I was in government many moons ago in the 2000s, it was a real hardship to deal with the alliance. We had a lot of things that we respected in it, but the politics of South Korea were very, very challenging.

And they did things that were very insulting to us during that period. And so we've had grievances. They've had some grievances, but by and large, we found a way to manage the biorhythms of this relationship. And it's net valuable to the United States. It's not just a matter of the balance sheet of who's paying host nation support and how many troops are there.

They invest trillions of dollars in the United States over multiple years in key. Industries, we get a lot of bang for our buck in terms of what we have in theater. Yes, we have these commitments. And yes, they should honor and be reciprocal when we have a need. They should find a way to be a solution provider, not a problem finder.

But this is, we just don't live in a world that's full of grown-ups all the time. And so, this is one of those spats that I think didn't need to happen. It's probably more about negotiating. I also don't really love the idea of let's re-engage North Korea in another broad diplomatic move, which may be in the offing, partly because I think the first round of those didn't net results. And I think that the businessman and President Trump ought to see some elements of that.

But if you look, North Korea has been doing bad things. They're helping fund the Russian war machine. They're giving personnel and missiles that are being used against Ukraine. They're getting hard currency for that.

So maybe something does need to change in that economy. Equation. That's my effort to give some benefit of the doubt to what's in this mix. But by and large, I think this is a tempest that didn't need to happen. It didn't need to happen.

And people can't say that they are. I also feel like South Korea can't claim that they are shocked that Trump would respond in such a way. I mean, it's Trump's, I mean, it's kind of like boardroom diplomacy. You know, I mean, if you're not going to do it, then maybe I'm going to go look at this other guy and go kind of go talk to him.

So we'll see how it goes out. We're out of time. Stephen Yates, though, you can always find him at Steve Yates on X. Always appreciate it, my friend. You have just such great perspective.

Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Thank you, Dana. Take care. This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea.

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So, a Florida man is in trouble because he exposed his, oh my gosh, his legs could not be skinnier. This guy's on drugs. This guy's on drugs. Four he's forty. Give me a moment.

Wow. Bay County deputies arrested a 40-year-old Florida man after he allegedly threw household items, including a TV, onto vehicles from an apartment balcony, y'all. They said Marcus Butler exposed his genitalia. threatened to kill law enforcement officers and barricaded himself inside his home. And he was, of course, taken into custody, but not before he said, quote, I'm gonna kill all ya all.

So, I mean, people from the South know what all y'all mean. They know what all y'all means, or all yeans all.

Southern Missouri, or apparently near Pittsburgh, too. They say yens. Just saying.

So, Florida man caught Speed and Clinton. He was rushing to a Bucky's bathroom. You know what? That's probably one of the best excuses I think I have ever heard in my life. This is why, again, if this was police officer Dana, I'd be like, sir, I'm going to have to let you go for that.

'Cause everybody knows Bucky's bathrooms are superior. Omar Suleiman, No, no, I'm not going to, no. Uh one I'm being honest. Omar Solomon pulled over in Cocoa Beach. A deputy's radar measured him.

Oh, it's 70 miles per hour. That does not mean 117 miles per hour, sir. 2.45 p.m. He said he was rushing. Because he was r get trying to get to a Bucky's bathroom.

And he was making unsafe lane changes and all of that. And the sheriff said, Yes, the bathrooms at Bucky's are exceptionally clean.

However, you should probably be a little closer to your speed limit when doing that.

So he got charged with reckless driving, operating a vehicle. Look, I think he's probably just being a D-bag. But still, the point is not missed on the Bucky stuff. Let's see. How okay, this Florida man was arrested in Pitt County because he stole a whole tractor trailer.

That's bravery. Antonio James, he was arrested in Miramar, Florida, by State Highway Patrol. He stole. A 2020 Wabash National 53-foot dry. Truck.

That was worth apparently seven thousand dollars. He is already on federal probation out of Florida. And he's got he's now held on bond $100,000, which he's not going to make. They don't have any details. I'm just curious as to how one just thinks that you're just going to surreptitiously steal a tractor trailer.

Like how does that work? This is hysterical. It's a villages. I got a. Are we out of time?

What?

Well, we've got to go.

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She lives in a very nice home in the villages. She was aiming her white Mercedes convertible at them shortly after 7 p.m. at a high rate of speed in the opposite direction.

So, yeah, you can't do that. Nope, none of us like them, but you can't aim your speeding car at them. This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea.

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From a day surrounded by noise To a stage. Surrounded by nature. That's nice. Go on, book it. It's easy.

Booking.com, booking.yeah. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I'm going to say, go ahead and write in the race. And if you beat my daughter and it costs her this much out of the 13 cases in the country and it costs her a little bit because she wanted to get into Yale, but she got into Dartmouth, I'll live with it because I'm not checking your genitalia and I'm not traumatizing you when you're a kid. You're just going to traumatize yourself.

I would rather have my daughter come in second, third, or eighth, okay, than traumatize those kids. That's why, because you're a pathetic father who's not about empowering his daughter. I would hate to have him as a father. What a horrible person.

So you're going to traumatize your kid because of a dude? What a cuck. This chunk is a cuck. I mean, there's a reason why his name begins with C and cuck begins with C. And that's why, guys, welcome back, Daniel Lash with you.

So he would penalize his daughter. For a dude because he cares about the dude more than he does his daughter. He virtue signals so hard. I mean, I am made of jokes about this right now, but how sad is that? That's horrible parenting.

If you're not going to advocate for your kid, your kid's going to grow up knowing that they don't have a home base where anybody will advocate for them. Second hour on the way. We have a lot to unpack. It's the burrito economy, guys. Stick with us.

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Go on, book it. It's easy. Booking.com, booking.yeah. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

All right, I ended up.

Sorry, I was looking at a meme and it was funny. I wish I could show it right now on radio.

Okay, so blah blah blah. First up. Um,. Axios, this is a joke, but it's real. Axios is partnering with OpenAI to automate local journalism.

Okay. You know what that means. We're gonna have robots right stories. Welcome to the news. That's how it's gonna be.

As though it's not already happening.

Okay, so scientists have made, this is Israeli scientists have made plants. Make plants produce milk protein for cow-free dairy.

Okay, I am completely against this, but I have a family member that is like super cannot have dairy like at all. Which makes going out to eat with them an absolute nightmare. Like to have any dinners or have any get-togethers or anything. They're the people who, I'm not, I don't want to out who they are, but they drink like oat milk and stuff like that, or like things like, not even the oat milk, oat milk, because that's like too much. Like, it's a weird, even.

It's like what a squirrel would drink.

So maybe this would help them, but otherwise. No, I don't want any plant milk. No, thank you. I get, I don't want to be mean to the people that got like dairy issues and all that, but it's just plant juice. I hope you know that.

Congress is moving closer to making big changes with money in your pocket. They're going after the nickel. They went after the penny. What are you going to put in penny loafers now? We're going to redo shoes.

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